Idaho’s state Board of Education today approved plans by Boise State University to build a new $40 million living-learning facility for BSU’s 600-student Honors College on the site of the former University Christian Church. The property is right across University Drive from the BSU Student…
Asked how things are going on finding a replacement for U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge, who took senior status July 3 but has been in a just-concluded terrorism trial ever since, with no replacement in sight, Sen. Mike Crapo told Eye on Boise, “They are…
Idaho Corrections Director Kevin Kempf is defending Idaho’s prison system, in response to a scathing ruling from U.S. District Judge David O. Carter that extended sanctions against the state in the long-running Balla case, a class-action lawsuit filed by inmates over the quality of health…
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Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo is in the midst of an unprecedented series of open town-hall meetings across the state of Idaho, hitting towns large and small, talking about the national debt and taking questions. “We started last October,” Crapo said. “It really lends itself, I…
The Ketchum home where Ernest Hemingway wrote his last works before killing himself in the main entryway in 1961 has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Nature Conservancy owns the two-story, 2,500-square-foot house, the AP reports, and announced the listing this…
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